Accession Number | P11537.002 |
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Collection type | Photograph |
Object type | Colour - Print hand-coloured black & white |
Maker |
Unknown |
Date made | 1930s |
Conflict |
Second World War, 1939-1945 |
Copyright |
Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain
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Portrait of 18762 Chief Electrical Artificer Allen Leslie Smith. A fitter and turner from Sydney, ...
Description
Portrait of 18762 Chief Electrical Artificer Allen Leslie Smith. A fitter and turner from Sydney, NSW, Allen Smith enlisted in the RAN on 16 September 1927. He was killed in action, aged 36, when HMAS Sydney was sunk in the Indian Ocean by the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran on 20 November 1941.